A former New York Giants linebacker has sued the Washington Redskins, a former player and Gregg Williams for injuries he claims resulted from the bounty program he ran as their defensive coordinator, according to a report.

The Baltimore-based Maryland Daily Record reported Monday afternoon that Barrett Green filed the suit, originally in May in Prince George's County, Md., court (the injury took place on Dec. 5, 2004, at FedEx Field). It was re-filed last week in U.S. District Court in nearby Greenbelt, Md. The court clerk's office confirmed the suit Monday afternoon.

Gregg Williams has been accused of using a bounty system in places other than New Orleans. (AP Photo)

Williams, now a senior defensive assistant with the Titans, was suspended all of last season by the NFL for his role in the Saints bounty program. He was accused of operating a similar program with the Redskins when he coached there from 2004-07, but the league cleared him and the team.

Green, now 35, played in the NFL for six seasons, the last in 2005. After the injury against Washington, he played the next two weeks before sitting out the final two, then played only one game the following season before being released in the offseason.

In the lawsuit, the Daily Record reported, Green claims that a tackle by the Redskins’ Robert Royal injured his ACL and ended his career. Royal, a tight end and special teamer who last played in 2010, is named in the suit with the team and Williams.

Oddly, Green, a defensive player was injured by an offensive player, seemingly contradicting Williams' role in a possible bounty for the defensive players he coached. But according to Tulane law professor Gabe Feldman, who has seen the suit, Green claimed that Royal had played at least one snap on defense for Williams before, making them liable for carrying out the alleged bounty.

Feldman described the chances of Green winning the suit as a longshot.

"I think it's likely this case gets dismissed very quickly. The courts have historically recognized that the nature of football puts the potential for serious injury in the category of 'ordinary conduct' that is "reasonably foreseeable,'" he said.

Green would then have to prove his belief that his career-ending injury was a result of Royal intentionally trying to inflict it on the orders of his coach and his team.

"There are a lot of dots to connect, and you have to find all the dots," Feldman said.

The four Saints players disciplined by the NFL last year for their roles in the bounty program took their cases to federal court in New Orleans; eventually their cases were arbitrated, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue overturned the suspensions last December. No player is known to have gone to court alleging a bounty-related injury until Green's suit.